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“The Pope has made a huge error of judgement by inviting and greeting the Zimbabwean President (for his inauguration).

Muslim MPs who voted for same-sex marriage have since received death threats and fatwas from Islamist extremists and clerics in the UK and Pakistan. Five Muslim MPs voted in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, two abstained and one voted against.

New report of 4 men to be executed in Iran under accusations of sodomy. Iran, which is one of seven countries that continue to impose the death penalty for homosexuality, has been criticized the world over for human rights record, as attested to by a forthcoming report from the Peter Tatchell Foundation

UK International Development Minister says policy has been misrepresented: UK foreign aid will not be cut, but switched to NGOs and civil society organisations; On Monday, Nov 21, the Tatchell Foundation presented African social justice activists’ statement to UK government.

After weeks of lobbying by EGALE and the Peter Tatchell Foundation, the NDP took up the cause of the decriminalization of homosexuality today in the House of Commons. Lagging behind the UK and Australia, Baird avoided answering the MPs, while global pressure mounts on Commonwealth leaders.

David Cameron’s Conservative government has released a statement that it intends to suspend aid to countries in the Commonwealth that uphold homophobic laws. The change in policy could affect several African countries. Simultaneously, UK activists have launched a petition to get Commonwealth nations to recognize HIV and criminalisation issues at the upcoming summit in Australia.

UK activist extraordinaire Peter Tatchell is at it again. This time, he’s urging the global LGBT community to write to Commonwealth of Nations leader Kamalesh Sharma to put the decriminalization of homosexuality on the agenda at the international league’s meeting in Perth later this month.

UK Equality minister Lynne Featherstone announced today that the government’s consultation on gay marriage is postponed until March 2012, with a long-term plan of legalizing same-sex marriage only by 2015.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s embattled Conservative government launched on Tuesday an advocacy NGO called the Kaleidoscope Diversity Trust to lobby for LGBT equal rights in Africa and the Middle East.

In protest against the Moscow City Hall ban on Gay Pride, a small group of LGBT activists staged a demo in front of Moscow City Hall yesterday. Police brusquely arrested and detained high-profile demonstrators Dan Choi and IDAHO-leader Louis-Georges Tin, along with 16 others who faced a neo-Nazi mob.